Hoxton Hall
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 Hoxton Hall | |
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| Address | 130 Hoxton Street London, N1 United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 51°31′54″N 0°04′49″W / 51.5318°N 0.0802°W |
| Public transit |  Hoxton |
| Owner | Hoxton Hall - Registered Charity |
| Designation | Grade II* |
| Capacity | 290 |
| Current use | Performance arts theatre |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1863 |
| Years active | 1863–present |
| Architect | James Mortimer |
| Website | |
| hoxtonhall.co.uk | |
Hoxton Hall is a performance arts theatre and community centre in the Hoxton area of Shoreditch, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney.
A grade II*
Quaker
meeting house.
The music hall lost its performance licence in 1871 due to complaints by the police; it was sold, and the new owners applied for a licence in 1876, but were again rejected.
Huntley and Palmer
biscuit family and spent much of his fortune on charity. On Palmer's death, the hall passed to the Bedford Institute, a Quaker organisation dedicated to running adult schools and alleviating the effects of poverty.
Today, the hall is used as a community centre and performance space.
Notable recent performances
- On invitation from Lisa Goldman, artistic director of award-winning theatre company The Red Room, Leo Asemota created video installations and a portfolio of photographic portraits of Hoxton residents for the site-specific production Hoxton Story which opened at Hoxton Hall, to performances on 10 September 2005
- Robert Newman filmed a television programme entitled A History of Oil for More4 at Hoxton Hall. The show is a mixture of stand-up comedy and an introductory lecture on geopolitics and peak oil. Based on his touring show, Apocalypso Now, Newman argues that twentieth-century Western foreign policy, including World War I, should be seen as a continuous struggle by the West to control Middle Eastern oil. The peak oil projection is based on Richard Heinberg's book The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies.
References
- Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950, John Earl and Michael Sell pp. 118–9 (Theatres Trust, 2000) ISBN 0-7136-5688-3